A campaign to restore Jensen Huang as Nvidia’s chief executive says thousands of current employees have signed. One prominent Nvidia executive is publicly standing with the directors who accepted his departure.
Stand with Jensen reported 71,674 signatures when SnowRock checked its public count at 4:13 a.m. Eastern on Saturday. Its categories included 4,230 current employees, 725 former employees, 38,898 shareholders and 27,821 other supporters. Those affiliations are self-reported and unverified, according to the campaign. The total cannot be read as a count of Nvidia workers.
The letter asks directors to reinstate Huang while an independent investigation establishes the facts, unless they provide compelling evidence that his removal serves the company’s interests. It also asks them to disclose the inquiry’s scope and timetable and give Huang an opportunity to respond. The campaign says it is independent of Nvidia and Huang.
Elon Musk supplied a recognizable public supporter. “A petition is underway to reinstate Jensen and I’m signing it too,” he wrote on Friday. The campaign’s public list includes an entry under his name. That entry alone does not authenticate who submitted it; his own post establishes his stated support.
Bryan Catanzaro, a Nvidia vice president, offered a different account of employee sentiment. In a Friday post, he rejected a circulating reinstatement letter that claimed his involvement. He called that letter fake and said he would not sign it even if it were genuine. His denial concerned that letter; it does not establish that every separate campaign is fabricated.
Catanzaro said he was grief-stricken by Huang’s departure while expressing confidence in Nvidia’s board. He also backed Colette Kress, describing her as an extraordinary leader he had worked with for years.
Polymarket amplified an open letter Friday night with the appeal, “Jensen deserves due process, not mob justice.” Catanzaro’s post supports the board’s judgment and the executive now leading the company.
Nvidia’s securities filing dates Huang’s resignation as president, chief executive and director to November 11. Its November 12 announcement named Kress interim chief executive while retaining her as chief financial officer and said the search for a permanent successor would consider internal and external candidates.
The company’s independent directors had already appointed Joon Kim and Wachtell Lipton to investigate the allegations.
Nvidia has scheduled its quarterly earnings release for Tuesday, November 17, at about 1:20 p.m. Pacific, with an earnings call at 2 p.m. Kress will be responsible for both executive leadership and the financial report as supporters press directors to bring her predecessor back.
